Pluralism

Pluralism is used in different ways across a wide range of topics. It denotes a diversity of views and stands rather than a single approach or method of interpretation:

• Benefice, in the sense of holding multiple ecclesiastical offices
• Cosmic pluralism, the belief in numerous other worlds beyond the Earth, which may possess the conditions suitable for life
• Cultural pluralism, when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities (see Multiculturalism)
• Legal pluralism, acknowledges the existence of differing legal systems in the world
• Methodological pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science and social science require multiple methods to account for their nature
• Pluralism (industrial relations), recognition of a multiplicy of legitimate interests and stakeholders in the employment relationship
• Pluralism (political philosophy), the acknowledgment of a diversity of political systems
• Pluralism (political theory), belief that there should be diverse and competing centres of power in society, so that there is a marketplace for ideas
• Pluralist school, a Greek school of pre-Socratic professors
• Educational pluralism, the belief that an educational community is enriched when individual differences are respected and welcomed.
• Religious pluralism, the acceptance of all religious paths as equally valid, promoting coexistence
• Scientific pluralism, the view that some phenomena observed in science require multiple explanations to account for their nature.
• Social pluralism, places the study of political phenomena on the ground where systematic explanation is the norm.

In philosophy

• Epistemological pluralism, a set of untold truths about the world, but rather many
• Metaphysical pluralism, a doctrine according to which many basic substances make up reality
• Value pluralism, the idea that there are several values which may be equally correct and fundamental, and yet in conflict with each other

See also

• Artistic interpretation
• Journal of Legal Pluralism
• Global Centre for Pluralism, an international centre for research, education and exchange, based in Ottawa, Canada
• Multiculturalism
• Postmodernism

Pluralistic society is involved in Globalization